Garment hanger



Aug. 10, 1954 w. B. GOZA ETAL 2,685,991

GARMENT HANGER Filed March 23, 1951 INVENTOR. WILLIAM B. 602/? JusTuv L. GHRRETT BY Wf m A T TORNI Y5 Patented Aug. 10, I954 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE GARMENT HANGER William B. Goza and Justin L. Garrett, Attalla, Ala.

Application March 23, 1951', Serial No. 2I7,I 3 4 3' Claims. 1

This invention relates to garment hangers and more particularly to such devices upon which an entire suit is hung, said devices generally including an upper shoulder portion for supporting a coat, vest or other similar garment, and a lower horizontal bar upon which to hang trousers, skirts, and other similar garments or articles of apparel. These hanger devices usually are constructed with the upper shoulder portion of an arched form and the lower bar portion is supportingly attached at its opposite ends to the shoulder portion or formed integrally therewith, in which construction the folded trousers or other garment to be hung on the lower bar is necessarily pulled through the space between the bar and said upper shoulder portion. This makes it not only difficult to arrange the garment on the bar neatly and without wrinkling but it is also inconvenient to remove the garment from the bar, particularly while a coat or other garment is hung from the shoulder portion and overlies said garment on the lower bar.

Some efiort has been made to overcome the above noted disadvantages and resulting in some improvement but not to the full desirable degree. That is to say, the lower bar of the hanger has been detached from the upper shoulder portion at one end with a space therebetween so that the folded leg portions of the trousers or other garment in folded condition is slipped on and off the bar endwise thereof, but there still remained the disadvantage of having to remove the coat or other garment either partially or entirely from the shoulder portion of the hanger when either placing the trousers or other garment upon or removing the same from the lower bar.

The present invention has for its prime object to further improve useability of common one piece wire frame garment hangers by providing a hook-on attachment, whereby garments ordinarily hun underneath other garments on the upper shoulder portions may be hung outside and higher up where they can be more readily seen, and removed or hung thereon, eliminating the necessity of disturbing garments hanging on the shoulder portions of the wire hanger itself, the arment bar is more accessible due to fact that it is supported from one end only, the other end being open with no obstruction from an upper arm as found in other types. To this end the invention consists in novel general structure and in certain parts in detail as hereinafter described and set forth with particularity in the appended drawing-s illustrating practical adaptation of the invention, and in which Figure 1 is a front elevation of the improved hook on supporting bar attachment.

Figure 2 is a top plan view of the hanger illustrated in Figure 1.

Figure 3 is an end view of structure shown in Figures 1 and 2.

With reference to the drawing we show in Fig. 1 the manner in which our improved attachment is applied to an ordinary one-piece wire garment hanger 12. The attachment comprises a bar [4 which is connected at one end to an upper supporting arm 31 by means of an arched bracket 32. On the upper end of upper supporting arm 3! is a special bracket 33 which serves as a spacer between the wire hanger l2 and the supporting arm 3 i, so that garments hung on either the wire hanger or the attachment will not disturb each other. The spacer bracket 33 is provided with horizontally extending hooks 34 which serve as a means to hang the attachment onto the wire hanger l2.

As shown in Figures 2 and 3 of the drawing, the

I hooks 34 hang over the upper arms 28 of the hanger I2, there being two hooks 34, one on either side of the twisted neck 22 of wire hanger. This construction holds the attachment against slipping back and forth on the upper arms 28 of wire hanger l2.

In the above noted construction of the attachment the elevation of the bar it has been raised somewhat as compared to the lower supporting bar 25 of the hanger 12. By so positioning the bar l4 production cost is reduced and the garments hanging on bar M are in plain view so they can be easily seen, removed, and. placed thereon especially when hanging in a wardrob or closet beside or between other garment on their respective hangers.

While we show the hanger [2 as being formed of wire, it will be apparent that it may be formed of other suitable materials, such as wood, plastic or the like.

From the foregoing it is noted that the inventive idea of present invention may be incorporated in a specially constructed hanger or as an attachment to an ordinary hanger structure, and while the structure illustrated in the drawings embodies a practical adaptation of the invention, it is understood that considerable modification and alteration is possible within the spirit and scope of the invention as defined in the appended claims. The invention therefore, is not limited to the specific construction and arrangement shown.

What is claimed is:

1. An article of manufacture comprising a generally U-shaped rigid member having an upper arm and a lower arm longer than the upper arm from which garments may be supported, and means to support said article of manufacture comprising a pair of spaced apart members extending at right angles from a side of the upper arm adjacent the free end thereof and disposed to engage a supporting member.

2. An article of manufacture comprising a generally U-shaped rigid member having an upper arm and a lower arm longer than the upper arm from which garments may be supported, and means to support said article of manufacture comprising a pair of spaced apart hooks having shanks which extend at right angles from a side of said upper arm adjacent the free end thereof and adapted to engage the upper bar portions of a conventional type garment hanger on opposite sides of its supporting hook.

3. An article of manufacture comprising a generally U-shaped rigid member having an upper arm and a lower arm longer than the upper arm from which garments may be supported, a spacer bracket secured to a side of said upper arm adjacent the free end thereof, a pair of spaced apart hooks having shanks which extend at right angles from the side of the spacer bracket and adapted to engage the upper bar portions of a. conventional type garment hanger on opposite sides of its supporting hook.

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